Here they are, dishing me again!

（やあ、また僕の悪口を書いている）
　Eテレ（NHK教育）「Jブンガク」太宰治「ヴィヨンの妻」の一節より。ロバート・キャンベル氏による英訳。

• dishという単語を動詞としてこんなふうに使えるのを初めて知った。和英の辞書に「（敵等を）料理する、やっつける／（希望等を）くじく」（to ruin, foil, or defeat. *Chiefly British Slang）というのがあったので、これかな？と思ったが、英英で引くと「人のゴシップを話す／個人的な情報を暴露する」（to talk about the personal life of someone else／to gossip about／to disclose private or personal information ※disclose：あばく、暴露する／to give a lot of information about something or someone, especially something that would usually be secret or private）というのがあった。こっちのほうがそれっぽい。
  • The two of them are always dishing about their coworkers.
  • They talked all night, dishing their former friends.
  • She's ready to dish on boys, beauty, and break-ups in her new column.
• 関連表現としては "dish the dirt (on somebody)" で「嫌な事、個人的な情報を言う、暴露する」（to tell people unpleasant or shocking personal information about someone／to tell people unkind or unpleasant things about somebody, especially about their private life／to disclose or discuss especially publicly／tell people shocking things about someone's private life／ to spread harmful gossip or information）というのがある。泥を食わせるってイメージからなんだろうなと想像。
  • She agreed to dish the dirt on her ex-husband for a fee of fifty thousand pounds.
  • She loves to dish the dirt on her sisters.
  • He seems to have written his memoirs mainly so that he can dish the dirt on all his former lovers.
• ちなみにdish(v)にはふつうに「皿に盛る」という意味もあるよ。"dish out" という形になる。
  • I'll dish it out, and you take it to the table.
  • The restaurant dishes out more than 500 meals every night.
  • Sam's dishing out sandwiches if you want one.